A coalition of web and technology organisations including Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle have filed an anti-trust complaint to the European Commission, claiming Google's Android operating system gives the firm an unfair advantage in the mobile ...
Microsoft isn't fooling anyone by hiding behind a trade group to complain to European antitrust regulators about Google and its Android mobile operating system, a legal expert said today. "FairSearch.org is seen by many observers here as ...
Tags: Microsoft, Google, Antitrust Complaint
Microsoft took off the gloves and took a big swing at Facebook today, calling the social network's new Home launcher an old idea. Facebook Thursday unveiled Home, a home screen, along with family of apps all for Android smartphones. ...
BlackBerry last week announced technology designed to securely separate work and personal data on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as its Balance software does for new BlackBerry 10 devices. The new Secure Work Space for iOS and ...
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Samsung Electronics is readying a smartphone based on the Tizen operating system to be released in the second half of this year, it said Friday. It has already found a customer: NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile carrier, plans to launch ...
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BlackBerry today announced technology designed to securely separate work and personal data on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as its Balance software does for new BlackBerry 10 devices. The new Secure Work Space for iOS and ...
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Google has retaken the role of superstar of the tech sector with a stunning stock rally as rival Apple flounders. Google has hit fresh all-time highs in recent weeks, and closed Friday in the US at $US831.52 ($814.69), capping a nearly ...
Crackle, Sony Pictures Television's multi-platform entertainment network, announced today that, together with innovative video advertising technology platform Innovid, they are launching cRoll. cRoll is the first interactive video ad unit ...
Faster Web browsing and lower data use might be on the cards for Android mobile phone users if they download a new version of the Chrome Web browser offered by Google. The latest Chrome Beta for Android, which was made available on ...
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The idea that the technology behind search is a done deal is far from the truth, according to Google, as the company appears to still have plenty of tricks up its sleeve to improve it. "Everybody's mindset is that search is a solved ...
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Google may be taking a page from Apple as it considers opening brick-and-mortar retail stores, according to reports. Google is working on plans to open retail stores in the U.S. where the company would sell Google-branded hardware, ...
US food group Campbell Soup Co. has recorded a drop in first-half profits as costs related to its acquisition of Bolthouse Farms hit earnings. Earnings in the six months ended 27 January fell to US$430m, a 7.3% decline on last year, the ...
Despite recent headlines about its security woes, Java has returned to the top spot in a monthly assessment of the popularity of programming languages, 10 months after being supplanted by the C language. The Tiobe Programming Community ...
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Twitter is modifying its search engine to include tweets more than a week old, a move it said will help users uncover better content. Over the next few days, searches will return "a fairly small percentage of total tweets ever sent" but ...
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Oracle is once again attempting to prove that Google illegally copied unlicensed software code in its Android mobile operating system, but this time the Java developer is invoking the spirit of Harry Potter to push its claim through the ...
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